FROM KINGSTON TO KENYA : The Making of a Pan-Africanist Lawyer - Softcover

Dudley Thompson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912469293 ISBN 13: 9780912469294

Publisher: MAJORITY PRESS, 1993

Synopsis

Born in Panama of Jamaican parents, Dudley Thompson won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford in the 1950s, where he involved himself in the Pan-Africanist movement alongside such figures as George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah. Working in Kenya and Tanzania, he became a close friend of Jomo Kenyatta and Julius Nyerere, and was instrumental in obtaining the release of the former when he was arrested during Kenya's struggle for independence.

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After studying law as a Jamaican Rhodes Scholar, Thompson practised in East Africa. He organized the legal defense for Jomo Kenyatta during the Mau Mau trials of the 1950s. He later became a Jamaican cabinet minister and diplomat.

About this edition

• Publisher: MAJORITY PRESS
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0912469293
• ISBN 13: 9780912469294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144